Opinion

By Alu Azege I have had to engage with people from different spheres on the forthcoming presidential elections. It is interesting how everyone believes rather strongly, that their chosen candidates are the best things since sliced bread. Everyone wonders how daft anyone else is to not be supporting their own …

I am writing this letter to the Heads of families, Churches, Mosques, FRSC, NSCDC, NPF, DRTS and any other Government office tasked with ensuring the safety of Nigerians on Nigerian roads. Because it concerns and affects all of us. While we have all become very conscious of the different menaces …

The Itsekiris are people that are known for peace and our monarchs over the years have been very generous to the Ijaws of Gbaramatu, Egbema and Ogbe Ijoh. We have chosen to reply only to the Ogbe Ijoh people on this occasion to correct the statement that they are indigenous …

by Michael BUSH* 1.0 Last night out here in Abuja as I contemplated this piece, some troubling, godforsaken news filtered in. I rejected it, and being too confused to write thereafter, I went to bed. This morning, Facebook messed me up: check out almost every Akwa Ibom timeline. Why do …

Monday the 14th of February 2022, was a very eventful day in Nigeria, and it really wasn’t all about the valentine. Yes, the love fever was in the air, however, the main buzz that rocked the country was the fugitive warrant issued by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) …

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the National Assembly to consider and approve the supplementary budget of N2.55trn for fuel subsidy. The President made this known in a letter written to the National Assembly and read by the Senate President Ahmed Lawan on the floor of the Senate during Tuesday plenary. …

  By: Yusuf A. Yusuf Dr. Vincent Olatunji has a doctorate degree in Geography and Planning from the University of Lagos and an Advanced Diploma in Computer Studies. He is a Certified Public Private Partnership Specialist (IP3 Specialist) and a PECB Certified Data Protection Officer. He has worked in the …

It was with intense trepidation that I watched His Excellency, Gov. Udom Emmanuel in a telecast that had long gone viral. In that video, the Governor had accused Oron people, in his words; “I am not afraid to say this. They say, name and shame. I want to say this …

It began with a 183 km journey from Lagos to Ede-South local government area of Osun state. According to the data made available by the National Social Safety-net Coordinating Office (NASSCO), Ede-South LGA has 3,673 households and 12,947 individuals captured in the National Social Register (NSR). : I headed to the social …

  By Ishaku Umar   A world renowned novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, Herbert George Wells once said “Crime and bad lives are the measures of a State’s failure”. This is exactly the event that is playing out in Zamfara, a state in the North West part of Nigeria. Last …

By Anselm Okolo The Headquarters of the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice on 10 Dares Salaam Street, Wuse 2, Abuja, set up in 2001 pursuant to the 1993 revised treaty of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has become a beehive of activities as staff prepare to relocate …

SALIHU DANTATA  MAHMUD There is the need for the Lagos State Police command to overhaul its state investigation bureaus (SIB), crime branches of both divisional headquarters and Area Commands. It appears some officers and men compromises standard in order to satisfy interests of either suspects or complainants who play to …

By Seye Adebayo The National Identity Number popularly known as NIN is a set of unique 11-numbers issued to individuals/citizens who have registered with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). The NIMC captures the digital identity of all citizens and issued them the NIN as their unique digital identity. The …

In every polity, the product of uncontrolled political tension is anarchy or instability, at best. In 2003, moneybags in Anambra State compelled a governorship candidate to sign ahead of time a letter of resignation in case he, on winning the election, fails to adhere to a number of mutually agreed …

In this message to relationship expert Osigwe Omo-Ikirodah anchor of iRelationship make or mar this American returnee is confused over the proposal from her pastor. She claims early this year she relocated back to Nigeria with her husband from America. The husband and a terminal ailment and he decided to …

After the 23 February election, Senator Dino Melaye, in his usual ebullience and clownishness, pounced on former minority leader in the Senate Godswill Akpabio and called him ‘retired Senator’, who will be missed in the 9th Senate. Akpabio then had lost his re-election to the Senate on the platform of …

After the Supreme Court threw out the legal challenge by Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on the February 2019 presidential poll last week, two things flashed across my mind. One was a song, the other, a quote from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which I’d read over 40 years …

            By Salihu Dantata Mahmud   Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande (Baba Kekere) first executive Governor of Lagos State from 1979 to 1983 whose unbeatable legacies is one that one of his predecessors from 1999 to 2003 and 2007 in person of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu …

THE OSINBAJO THAT I KNOW Oladimeji Daniels Whatever is happening with the Muhammadu Buhari administration needs to be fixed urgently. The politics of the Villa is usually mostly seen as self-interest-driven, but in a very long time, most Nigerians saw someone in the villa they could relate with and trust, …

By Atiku Abubakar The reality is that our nation does not work well whether we focus on security, education, economic production, employment generation and people’s welfare or we focus on governance and politics or the relationships among our diverse ethnic, regional, and religious groupings. Our government relies excessively on rent …